Lucy Faridany holds a postgraduate diploma in piano accompaniment with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied with Geoffrey Pratley. She worked with the Carmel Bach Festival, the Monterey Symphony, the Carmel Opera Project, the Pacific Repertory Theater and the Western Stage. She appeared as concerto soloist in the Monterey Symphony Christmas concert in 2006 and will appear next year as soloist with the Monterey Peninsula College Orchestra. She is organist at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church and accompanist for the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula. She teaches piano at Santa Catalina School and has a private teaching studio in Carmel Valley.